TIXEIU.ff. — SENTA. 297 



The caterpillar feeds on honey in the nest of Bombus Lapidarius and its 

 allies. 



Notwithstanding the great disparity of the two insects here united, I am dis- 

 posed to consider them the sexes, as they are both extremely local, and 

 occur in the same places at the same time ; and in my series I have a long 

 string of the pale-shouldered kind all males, while my series of the green- 

 winged, or spotted ones, are all females. 



Not very abundant within the metropolitan district : taken, how- 

 ever, occasionally, at Darenth wood, and at Kipley, in June. 



+Sp. 2. anella. Alts anticis griseis, punctis duohus centralibus nigris subocel- 

 latis, scute/h albo apicefusco. (Exp. Alar. 1 unc. — t lin.) 



Ti. anella. Fabricius, E. S., iii. b. 299. 56. — To. bipunctata. Haworth. — 

 Melia bipunctana. Sieph. Catal. ii. 213. No. 7414.. 



Anterior wings griseous, with two central subocellated black dots, and a fine 

 streak of the same on the shoulder ; cilia ashy-grey, with an interrupted 

 blackish streak at the base ; posterior wings ochrey-white. 



Taken by the late Mr. Hatchett at the Jews' Burying-ground, 

 Stepney. 



Genus CCCLX. — Senta mihi. 



Palpi four ; maxillary short, concealed in the scales of the front ; labial longer, 

 curved upwards, and faintly visible from above; the second joint longer 

 than the other : maxillce moderate. Antenna similar in the sexes ; slightly 

 pubescent within : head small, with a tuft in front: eyes moderate : thorax 

 stoutish : wings elongate ; anterior somewhat linear, obtuse or acute at the 

 apex; the disc with indistinct markings, or merely spotted; posterior 

 ample : cilia short : body rather long and stoutish, obtuse in the males, 

 depressed, with elevated sides, and the apex acute in the females : legs 

 shortish. 



This genus, which I have adopted from the notice given by 

 Mr. Curtis, I. c, appears to differ materially from jNIelia, in which he 

 includes the two species, by the form of the palpi and that of the 

 anterior wings, which are either pale and obtuse, furnished with 

 darker dots, or darker and acute, with longitudinal dusky streaks. 



tSp. 1. flammea. Alis anticis acutis riifescente-fuscis, vittd irregulari brunnea, 

 strigaque postica punctorum nigro7-uni. (Exp. Alar. 1 unc. — 2} lin.) 



Me. flammea. Curtis, r. 5. js/. 201.— N. G. flammea. Steph, Catal ii. 214. 

 No. 7415. 



